Today is your last chance until 2044 to see a total eclipse of the sun in the continental United States.
Enjoy the assurance of eye protection for you and the little ones withsolar eclipse glasses. These glasses aren’t like the ones you wear in the car or at the beach—eclipse glasses contain ISO-certified material to provide superior eye protection. Standard sunglasses aren’t for looking into ...
Two weeks later, on May 19, the moon will have traversed half its orbit and arrived at apogee. When the eclipse occurs a few hours later,the moonwill be too small in the sky to cover the sun totally, resulting in an annular eclipse, or "ring of fire." Annular eclipses are sometimes...
From the lesson, “The moon illusion.” I have learned countless bits of information. But what’s amazed me most isn’t just the interesting facts, or how smart they make me sound when I bring them up in conversations. What really surprised me was the fact that someone thought to ask: ...